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Project studies supply chain sustainability
19/11/2015
Project studies supply chain sustainability
A European Union-supported project has just finished a two-year study on the potential for small and medium-sized companies to use a web-based decision-making tool that could help them improve the sustainability of their supply chains. The PrESS (Promoting environmentally sustainable SMEs) project...
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Bank banks on eco-innovation
21/10/2015
Bank banks on eco-innovation
One of the United Kingdom’s main banks is working on a scheme that allows entrepreneurs to use its head office to showcase their eco-innovations. The scheme could help entrepreneurs test and refine their eco-innovative products and ideas, and could help them to scale-up and find new markets. The...
United Kingdom
Fuel from waste gas technology to be rolled-out in Belgium
06/10/2015
Fuel from waste gas technology to be rolled-out in Belgium
Multinational steel-making giant ArcelorMittal is experimenting with a process to turn an industrial byproduct from its operations into ethanol that can be used in transport fuel. The initiative, which will be rolled-out by the company at its steel plant in Ghent, Belgium, could reduce carbon...
Belgium
Belgian fish farm takes up the sustainable aquaculture challenge
22/09/2015
Belgian fish farm takes up the sustainable aquaculture challenge
Over-exploitation of the oceans means that meeting current demand for fish by taking from the wild is unrealistic. To sustainably produce fish there will have to be more reliance on aquaculture. The scale of the challenge was illustrated by a 2014 World Bank report 1 that found that by 2030, 62%...
Belgium
REBus project facilitates development of circular economy business models
22/09/2015
REBus project facilitates development of circular economy business models
A European Union-backed project working in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom is helping small and large organisations to make their circular economy ideas more concrete, by assisting them in developing new business models based on more sustainable principles. Most recently, the LIFE REBus...
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Planet Mark promotes continuous carbon footprint reduction
23/06/2015
Planet Mark promotes continuous carbon footprint reduction
A United Kingdom sustainability certification scheme is extending its impact beyond the companies that it certifies to provide support to the The Planet Mark is a collaboration between London-based sustainability consultancy Planet First and the Eden Project, which opened in 2001 in Cornwall,...
United Kingdom
Hackerspaces offer bottom-up approach to the circular economy
22/06/2015
Hackerspaces offer bottom-up approach to the circular economy
Hackerspaces or makerspaces are local community clubs or networks that offer a location for people to meet and share tools and expertise related to the repair and design of products – usually consumer electronics. Hackerspaces have emerged in response to concerns that electronic and electrical...
United Kingdom
Sustainable packaging from “mushroom materials”
22/05/2015
Sustainable packaging from “mushroom materials”
A US company has developed a successful line of “mushroom materials” that can be used as a compostable, biodegradable replacement for polystyrene and other packaging derived from hydrocarbons. The company, The company has developed a method of “growing” packaging materials from regionally...
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New innovations promise better results from rubber recycling
20/04/2015
New innovations promise better results from rubber recycling
An Israeli company has developed a rubber recycling process that results in a high quality recycled material that can be used to make a wide range of products. The method could help create new markets for recycled rubber, which can usually only be used for low-grade applications. The process,...
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First commercial development of straw houses goes on sale following EU project
11/03/2015
First commercial development of straw houses goes on sale following EU project
A group of seven houses constructed from highly compacted straw has gone on sale in Bristol, United Kingdom, following extensive testing to prove the safety and environmental performance of the straw panels, which was carried out with assistance from a European Union-funded eco-innovation project...
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